1st Lt Corey DeGroot
Air Force Institute of Technology
Outsourcing Partnership: a business relationship where all parties involved cooperate with mutual trust, shared risk and outcomes that result in competitive advantage5
“The Air Force Community Partnership Program is a framework through which installation and public/private sector community leaders can develop innovative ways to leverage their capabilities and resources to obtain shared value and benefit by avoiding or reducing costs.”
This research effort investigated the off-base community to build a tool to identify installations which should explore partnership opportunities. The scope of this research will be limited to exploring library partnership opportunities at Air Force installations located in the Continental United States (CONUS). This research investigates the facilitators, or environmental factors, to identify where greater opportunities for creating partnerships may exist. The result of this research is a tool which produces a relative measure for each off-base community, where higher values indicate a greater potential for partnerships. This relative measure utilizes inverse distance weighting (IDW) between an installation and each service location in the surrounding community.
\(z(x) = \frac{\sum_{i=1}^{n}W_i * Z_i}{\sum_{i=1}^{n}W_i}\)
\(W_i = 1/d_i^2\)
\(Z_i =\) Size of the library